Play on your website???  Are you kidding?  Nope!  

We just launched Carole's site a couple of weeks ago.  I had the chance to sit down and do a quick recording on what she likes about her new website and Weebly (the underlying technology).  Play was one of most unexpected words that came up.

As a web developer from the early days, I'm struck by the stories of difficulty that crop up for me when thinking about editing websites.  

On Thursday, October 4th, I met with WineSecrets owner Eric Dahlberg to disucss getting a website up in a hurry for a new endeavour Eric was involved in, Phoenix Barrels.  The Phoenix process is a wine barrel rejuvenation system that restores barrels to their almost original condition.  Eric needed his sales person to have the credibility a website offers as well as the ability to provide a downloadable brochure and video on the site.

Like the accountant who does a great job for his clients, but never gets around to his own taxes, so has the story been for Influence's own website.  Our last site was designed in 2003 and has had a few updates since, but frankly, has been outdated for some time(and as a result a bit of an embarrassment).

Welcome to the new influence website! What a huge relief this is for me as, as I find it is for any business owner.  Being current just feels good.  It also includes our new Influence Internet logo, which is take-off on our Influence Healthcare branding.

As you may know, I have been doing a radio show for the Napa Chamber of Commerce at KVON for about 8 years now.  Every Friday, I would walk in and see Kellie Fuller of "Kellie in the Morning" fame through the glass between the AM and FM studios.  

Somewhere in August or September, Kellie told me she was leaving to pursue her music career. I told her I would be happy to help her with her website.

Well what a thrill to launch this site today!  We brought in Jeni Olsen Design to handle the design and through a series of meetings, what the came up with was amazing!  

The owner really liked how Auberge Du Soleil's website had images on the side.  While we thought there was merit, Jeni and Chelsea came up with a better idea.  As you can see in the image on the right with the grape cluster, every picture in that place can be swapped out on a per-page basis.  

We are really pleased to launch Eagle Rock Shipping this week.  We brought in Jeni Olsen Design (JOD) to handle the logos for both Eagle Rock and their new product The Wine Box.  Once logos were completed, we worked with JOD on layout and design of the site. 

While the site was being built, we also helped Eagle Rock with their content via our partner Stella Orange.  We were really pleased to put proprietor, Bill Myers, and Stella together.  

Influence had the opportunity to work with Ryan Tharp of CustomWebApps and Andrew Healy 3 Rock Marketing to bring an updated look and feel as well as social media to what was an outdated and unappealing previous website.  We handled Account and Project Management.

Ryan and his team did an outstanding job of converting an old WordPress implementation into a clean, simple and elegant website.

Over the past year or so, we have been the technical and online marketing end of a project called Berbunga.  The premise of the company is to use crowdsourcing to help client companies develop and market their products.  By going to people that care the most, such as a company's customers, there is a vested interest for those people to collaborate on updates or new products of the company.  The Berbunga website is where the primary message of Berbunga is articulated.